RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Kear
e has it ever cost us more to do it right than to do it poorly; shoddy workmanship always results in higher costs. If it is costing you too much to do it right, you are doing more than just your coding wrong. On 10/25/07, Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your informati

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Kear
Ok so Rogier says that a en esoteric non-standard version of Firefox gives a MINOR problem in navigaton on our help page.It MIGHT possibly affect perhaps 1 or 2 users out of more than100,000 users. There is no listing of anyone using debian in our OS stats. Which means it's only in the

RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
sel I understand that you have to prioritize how your site works with O.S.' es and browsers, but if you decide to use a plugin like flash you should go for it completely or don't. It's out of the question that users can't navigate your site, just because of some fancy flash. B

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
ontoya Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 6:12 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michael Kear > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:14 PM > To: wsg@webstan

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks Rogier, I appreciate your help. Since we are likely to have perhaps 1 or 2 users only using any of those browsers, and by far the vast majority of our users are using WindowsXP with IE6 or IE7 (remember this is not a IT related site - our customers are tshirt retailers and advertising age

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
G"day Nate, Thanks for your comments. The reason for using wmode was to fix the problem that existed before. All I wanted was to make sure the dhtml drop down menu came down on top of the flash movie not underneath it. Is that not the best way ? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW,

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks for your help Nick, and all the others who helped me with this. This demo file is a rush job, done at a distance - the flash designer is a relative of the client and lives in China, and doesn't understand any English. Makes it difficult. So there are a number of design issues on thi

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Cowie Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2007 1:57 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash On 16/10/2007, Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has fixed the problem for IE6 and Firefox on Windows,

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks Michael and Kit, setting the wmode did the trick. Happily I didn't even need to go back to the flash programmer (who's in China and we have a language issue whenever we try to make a change - it's a long story but suffice to say I'm dealing with the designer in China like it or not!) Any

[WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Kear
I have a page where there are some dhtml menus with drop downs across the top of the page, and a large flash object in the body of one of the pages. However the drop-down menu items are going underneath the flash object so they can't be clicked on. I thought I should just put the flash in

[WSG] It's times like this you remember how far you've come

2007-03-03 Thread Michael Kear
I have the task of writing the database/dynamic stuff behind an e-commerce site. The design work and static pages are done by a professional design web dev house in Brisbane, and yesterday I got hold of their work. My job now is to merge their stuff with the shopping cart and other components I've

RE: [WSG] BR tag causes odd behaviour ??

2005-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks, Kenny. I looked at the page in question (which is the only one I've validated at this stage - the others will be validated in the near future) and didn't find any . Did you find one? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webw

RE: [WSG] BR tag causes odd behaviour ??

2005-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
y, 17 October 2005 4:39 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] BR tag causes odd behaviour ?? On 17 Oct 2005, at 3:24 pm, Michael Kear wrote: > Can anyone see why the is causing the content to drop down > below the > adjacent floated div in the page > http://afterlifeli

[WSG] BR tag causes odd behaviour ??

2005-10-16 Thread Michael Kear
Can anyone see why the is causing the content to drop down below the adjacent floated div in the page http://afterlifelink.com.au/charges/index.cfm? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale

[WSG] OT - need a contract designer

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Kear
Please reply to this off-line because it’s off topic, but I’m posting this here because it’s the biggest group of designers who understand accessibility that I know ..  Sorry if I offend anyone …     ANYWAY …     I have been bidding for quite a large project, and have built in a gue

[WSG] Does anyone still design for 640x480?

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Kear
Yes, I know a good design will scale for any size screen (resolution if you prefer that term)  but most designers I know pick a minimum size and work out their designs with this as a normal minimum.  Any smaller sizes they just make the site work but not fret if things are not perfectly ali

RE: [WSG] Making CSS Buttons active

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Kear
2005 8:19 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Making CSS Buttons active   You need to use the property "display:block;". I suggest you see some of the great examples at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ - Original Message - From: Mi

[WSG] Making CSS Buttons active

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Kear
I’m building a site with a navigation button stack in the left column, and I’m trying to figure out how to make the whole button active.  I know I’ve seen it happening somewhere but I can’t find an example right now.   Can anyone show me how that is achieved?   I’m not sure if I’m making

RE: [WSG] Need a fresh eye - site check please

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Kear
from A$15/month -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nils Kr. Falch Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:15 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Need a fresh eye - cite check please On 7/26/05, Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[WSG] Need a fresh eye - cite check please

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Kear
I think I need a fresh eye on this ... I've run out of things to try. Can anyone see why in IE, I have a 10px gap at the right of the container div, but in Firefox it looks how it's supposed to.The image of Patty in the masthead graphic should touch the right border, as should the horizontal r

[WSG] OT: Site help please

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Kear
This is off-topic, and I'm sorry for that, but I need some independent people to have a look at a page and verify I'm seeing what the rest of the world sees - because my client doesn't .. . SO any replies off-list please so we don't end up with a long off-topic debate. My client swears when he g

RE: [WSG] Juicy Studio offline

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Kear
Since a lot of my competitors' names are being mentioned here, I feel justified in plugging my own. Sorry if I'm going over the bounds. I try not to self-promote in these forums. I'm in the hosting business too. http://afpwebworks.com I host on Windows boxes, with ColdFusion, .ASP, php, perl

[WSG] Why does my menu float high in IE?

2005-02-02 Thread Michael Kear
  Can anyone see why my menu is floating above the content div in IE6?  It's supposed to be touching the white area below it, as it does in Firefox and Netscape, but for a reason I can't find, in IE6 it floats above and resists any attempt I've made to bring it to heel.   Obviously it's

RE: [WSG] How to align form elements

2005-01-01 Thread Michael Kear
m Business Strength ColdFusion,PHP,ASP,ASP.NET hosting from $15/Month -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Turnbull Sent: Sunday, 2 January 2005 11:01 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How to align form elements > Micha

[WSG] How to align form elements

2005-01-01 Thread Michael Kear
I’ve got round this problem with a table kludge in the past, and I’d like to learn how to fix it in CSS … the elements in my form don't line up – the labels aren’t in line with the input boxes they relate to.   Can anyone tell me how to fix it?   It’s much worse in Firefox than it is in

RE: [WSG] an even more amazing css zen garden entry

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Kear
More proof that good/bad design is nothing whatever to do with tools/code/software, and everything to do with the designer's mind. Merry Christmas everyone! Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com Business Strength ColdFusion,

RE: [WSG] Color Scheme Tools (Was: My Site)

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Kear
How SOON they forget! I was very disappointed at how many colour tools went some of the way and didn't go all the way to doing what I want. For example too many didn't allow you to save the results. And the flash based ones meant you couldn't even cut and paste the HEX results anywhere - when y

RE: [WSG] font too small??

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Kear
I had this same problem a short while ago, and some listers might recall a spirited exchange that occurred from our friendly single-issue list member. The solution is to put a percentage value in the body style. There are differences of opinion as to what percentage you ought to have, but for me

[WSG] Sometimes you just cant help people ...

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Kear
I was talking to a blind friend over the weekend,  and since he uses Jaws screen reading software, the subject of web sites came up.   I was observing as how we in the profession were trying to make things easier for people using other devices than a browser to use the web.   “For exampl

RE: [WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-14 Thread Michael Kear
> Ok well compare that with this one: > Median Windows Settings > 96DPI ("normal fonts") > IE7.1 set to "Medium" How does one get IE 7.1? Oh DER!!! I'm using IE6.0.2900 - the one that came with WinXP Pro SP2. It's NETSCAPE that's up to 7.1. Whoops. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Austr

RE: [WSG] Another body tag question ...

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Kear
.2m is the Line-height. Michael Kear wrote: >Another body style question following from Felix's rant ... > ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hi

[WSG] Another body tag question ...

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Kear
Another body style question following from Felix's rant ... I looked at what Yahoo do in their style, (http://www.yahoo.com) and they have the following as their body style: body{font:84%/1.2em arial,sans-serif;direction:ltr} What's the point of setting the body font at 84% of 1.2em? (which i

[WSG] Question to the others ...

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Kear
... and to Felix if he's going to be a bit less aggressive Felix said that my width (on http://hawkradio.org.au if you're coming in late to this saga) ought to be set at 100ex. He says: "Make your overall width 100ex instead of 780px and the relationship between container width and text size

RE: [WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Kear
Felix, I think you need to be a little less aggressive and judgemental in your opinions. You seem to be trying to make me out as an idiot and incompetent at setting up my system. In fact it's deliberately a default installation. I don't change my browser's defaults for fear of getting into the ve

RE: [WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Kear
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felix Miata Sent: Sunday, 14 November 2004 6:36 AM > 5) I'd suggest setting your "body" font size to 76% or 0.7em. It looks > just a little better at that size. It already is .7em, which is only half de

RE: [WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Kear
NEWS The top level about, and the 2nd level About are both different links... Maybe that just confused me. also. is this you? MUSIC FROM FOGGY HOLLOW <http://hawkradio.org.au/bluegrass/> with Mike Kear Bluegrass, Newgrass & Acoustic Country ?? Michael Kear wrote: > You migh

[WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Kear
You might recall that some time ago I offered the opportunity to starting-designers to have a go at designing a radio station web site.  I said there was no money involved but we’d try to pay with advertising and promotion etc for the designer.    Well here’s progress on what’s happened.  

[WSG] Colour Scheme aids

2004-11-05 Thread Michael Kear
Not sure if this is off-topic or not.  If it is, I apologise now.  But I hope it isn’t off-topic, so I’ll continue … .   Does anyone have a favourite colour scheme tool?    What I’m looking for is a tool for design-challenged klutzes like me (well ok it’s actually FOR me.  I admit it!) wh

RE: [WSG] Select form element doesnt validate

2004-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
ntax for XHTML tags? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Select form element doesnt validate

2004-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
o you can find out what's right. Don't you think? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Kear Sent: Tuesday, 26

[WSG] Select form element doesnt validate

2004-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
I'm trying to validate a page, and I'm getting this error. Line 183, column 28: the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified And also .. Line 184, column 29: there is no attribute "SELECTED" I have two problems with this . I t

RE: [WSG] "top of page" link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Kear
You do remember that any link that refers to an anchor on the same page is by definition a visited link don't you. You can't just set text-decoration:none; on the link, you have to make sure it's set on the visited link too. Could that be the cause? Do you have some styling related to visited lin

RE: [WSG] "top of page" link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Kear
Richard, we can't see it because you have put the wrong link in. http://127.0.0.1 is the address of your own computer. If I click on it, it's the address of MY computer. We can't look at it unless you put it in a world-accessible place. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http

RE: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-06 Thread Michael Kear
-Original Message- Shane Helm - he say: <<>>> Quite so. I'm ashamed to say I built several web sites without validating anything. I worked on the basis that if it looked ok in IE and perhaps Netscape, and didn't look too bad in the mac we had at the next desk, that was ok. Anyone el

RE: [WSG] Re: Free Editors

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Kear
Amar, you have to keep accessibility in perspective. While we think a lot about accessibility, to the majority of site owners, the word 'accessibility' means 'catering to blind and disabled users'. This is obviously a gross simplification but that's how a lot of site owners think of it. Now

RE: [WSG] Re: Free Editors

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Kear
It's not entirely Off topic. At the MXDU conference last year, Sean Cornfield who is the Macromedia webmaster, said that they're gradually working towards standards compliance and accessibility. He said they are taking it seriously and whenever they work on a part of the site, they bring it up to

RE: [WSG] WYSIWYG Editors

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Kear
You're right about that Justin. Remove some of the features! In fact I spent probably three quarters of my development time on the one I use now (and have to insist users only use IE - I hate that!) on disabling stuff. I want to have my users able to produce nice looking content, but within th

RE: [WSG] WYSIWYG Editors

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Kear
G'day Vlad, Thanks for posting about your XStandard editor. I've been looking at your product off-and-on for a while, and never got round to getting a hold of it and using it seriously. One thing worries me though ... with WIndowsXP SP2 supressing all active-X controls except Microsoft's, how d

RE: [WSG] WYSIWYG Editors

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry Mark, but I don't think you're correct. Until very recently, they only worked on IE. Run the page on any other browser and you either get an error, or a plain textarea form control. And until the day before yesterday, there wasn't any I knew of that claimed to have XHTML support. Except

RE: [WSG] WYSIWYG Editors

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Kear
There are some coming through now that work in Firefox too. It's been a problem because they use a proprietary control in IE. Here are some you can look at: TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/example_simple.htm http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/example_advanced.htm Dev Edit has H

[WSG] I found a compliant Radio station site!

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Kear
I’ve been looking, on and off, for a standards-compliant radio station site for ages, and I’ve finally found one.   NZ’s government-owned Radio New Zealand has a compliant site, coded in XHTML1.0 strict.  It’s even got a page about its compliance and how its accessibility features work.  

RE: [WSG] Two form styling problems

2004-08-29 Thread Michael Kear
Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year -Original Message- From: Adam Steer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 30 August 2004 3:04 PM To: Michael Kear Subject: Re: [WSG] Two form styling problems Hi Michael ...check your code and CSS first - neither

[WSG] Two form styling problems

2004-08-29 Thread Michael Kear
I’m styling a form on a new site, and have two problems that perhaps you knowledgeable people can help me with:   Form is at http://koalaframing.com.au/contactus.cfm ,  style sheet is at http://koalaframing.com.au/styles/koalaframing.css     [A] I’m puzzled at why my submit button ha

RE: [WSG] Online browser XTHML editor

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Kear
I've been looking for a year now for an editor that will produce XHTML. I've chatted electronically with most of the developers/owners and I think as a group they didn't have XHTML on their radar screens at all. The guy who produces FCKEditor for example ( have trouble reading that without mildly

RE: [WSG] Unaccessible - NY Attorney General busts two big name sites

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Kear
I was interested that the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission uses tables for layout in their web site at: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/index.html http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/faq/f.a.q.html Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http

RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Kear
Ah! That'll be why I didn't archive it. I figure life's too short to be fretting about IE and non-IE capabilities. I figure while I have the say-so on the design aspect of a site, I'll just not use anything that doesn't work in all browsers. i.e. if it's IE only, it doesn't get done. The vast m

RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-12 Thread Michael Kear
I thought I read somewhere that you can style tables by columns, just as you can by rows and cells.In the article I read, the example showed TH across the top of the table, and the first column of cells was styled using some kind of column selector, not picking the first cell in each row. (thi

[WSG] Followup- what's happening with design project

2004-08-01 Thread Michael Kear
A quick followup to let you know what’s happened since I asked for volunteers to help me build a standards-compliant accessible radio station web site ….   I’ve had 5 designers put their hands up to volunteer, and I’m in the process of evaluating them now.   I’m taking account of the fact

RE: [WSG] Ikon, where are you?

2004-07-31 Thread Michael Kear
Out of office replies can get out of hand. I witnessed a case where someone late on a Friday night, set their OoO on, with a very helpful message, then just before leaving for home on a long weekend, though he'd better send off a message to someone in my client's customer service department. Wh

[WSG] OT: Last call for interested young desgners

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry for the kind-of off-topic post, so rather than compound my transgression please respond directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than on the list.   I have to make a decision in the next few days about how we’re going to design our new site, and if you want to be considered, now’

RE: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Kear
I've mostly used the good old MkI delete key - the most-used key on my keyboard. When I started renovating web sites, and using word docs and FrontPage sites, I tried using automated methods - search and replace and the like - and found there was always something left. A single or a somewhere t

[WSG] Trapping margins .. whats that?

2004-07-17 Thread Michael Kear
I took a look at this article mentioned in Russ's "light reading" missive today, [quote] The Practice of CSS Column Design: Boxes in Columns http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=CB7B3 [/quote] The article includes this statement: [quote] Be aware that either borders or padding can trap

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Kear
Ah yes, Los Angeles, Paradise. At least you can SEE the air they make you breathe. Cheers Mike Kear <<>> * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on postin

RE: [WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Kear
004 10:52 AM To: 'Michael Kear' Subject: FW: [WSG] Good radio station sites?   Hi Michael, sounds like a really worthwhile cause and good on you for taking on the challenge! :) I'm guessing (and hoping) you get a few offers from young designers that have some time on their hands

RE: [WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Kear
My research of radio station sites in the last 48 hours has told me that the vast majority of them are ... well to put it bluntly, they're a wank. Few of them provide content that's relevant to the activities of the stations, aside from program guides and some pictures of some of the hosts. But

[WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Kear
Does anyone know of any decent standards-based radio station sites?  I’ve been looking around lately for a project and I haven’t found a single one that is any good at all from an accessibility/standards standpoint.   It seems for the majority of radio stations they’ve either let their pr

RE: [WSG] I've done it again ...

2004-07-06 Thread Michael Kear
x27;ve done it again ... Michael Kear wrote: > I've lost a reference to another excellent article I read about how to > guarantee that two or three columns will go all the way to the bottom > of the page, regardless of the length of any of the columns. Can > anyone help? > Was it &

[WSG] I've done it again ...

2004-07-06 Thread Michael Kear
I’ve lost a reference to another excellent article I read about how to guarantee that two or three columns will go all the way to the bottom of the page, regardless of the length of any of the columns.    Can anyone help?   The article I’m looking for shows how to have columns styled all

RE: [WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-07-03 Thread Michael Kear
Seona, I feel your pain. There have been times I've asked serious questions to a list and had either flippant replies or no replies at all. I've wanted to say "LOOK YOU BUNCH OF B*S*A*DS, I REALLY NEED TO KNOW THIS. YOU ANSWER EVERYONE ELSE"S QUESTIONS WHAT"S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT MINE?" In many

RE: [WSG] Styling Text...

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Kear
Isn’t the more semantically correct way to do this?   (and for italics, the tags)?   Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Stratford Sent: Saturday, 3 July 2004 12

RE: [WSG] 100% Inaccessible

2004-06-29 Thread Michael Kear
I guess I’m learning something about design after all!    I looked at that e-booking site and decided it looks frankly .. ‘old fashioned’ in web terms.  Meaning it’s looking S 2001 now.  I have a friend in the games business, and I looked at his site yesterday and it looked very 1990s t

[WSG] Importing hacks into CSS? Whats the point?

2004-06-27 Thread Michael Kear
I was reading the article Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=170511 Referred to by Russ in his very useful "links for light reading" and I read this article. Amongst other things it suggests not putting hacks into

RE: [WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Kear
John, I do like your idea of using the program method of working out the padding for the top. That's an excellent idea. I'm in the process of making my own ColdFusion picture gallery ready for sharing with others, and this trick of yours will go well with it. Very elegant answer I think! An

RE: [WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Kear
What if you changed your design a little  so you don't need to do that?    Like for example putting the caption on the top instead of the bottom?   I haven’t tried this but what about putting the image and its caption in a div,  then putting THAT in another div, with fixed height attribut

RE: [WSG] pixel to ems converter

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Kear
There is no direct conversion. You cant make such a conversion. 1 pixel is a unit on the screen. There are something like 76 pixels per inch on a PC screen or 96 pixels per inch on a mac screen. One em is the width of the character "M" in whatever size the user has set as his default font size

RE: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Michael Kear
I guess my characterisation of this author didn't meet with universal approval. Fair enough Lea, but I don't take any of it back. Some thoughts about what he's written: IF Microsoft introduced the most fantastic, whiz-bang, easy-to-use new feature in the next version of IE, that wouldn't be enou

RE: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Michael Kear
Ok let me expand on my earlier opinion and give a bit more detail He's a bloody idiot. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Greenstock Sent: Monday, 14

RE: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Michael Kear
The author's an idiot. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Greenstock Sent: Monday, 14 June 2004 8:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Interesting readi

RE: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-13 Thread Michael Kear
But in a shared environment, which is where the vast majority of sites actually are, all the users on a site would have to stop using .CFM extensions on their coldfusion pages if you were sending .cfm pages to PHP. That just isn't practical. And it would PREVENT people moving their coldfusion sit

RE: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-13 Thread Michael Kear
MAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders Nawroth Sent: Sunday, 13 June 2004 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] file extensions Michael Kear wrote: > What's the point of doing this? Saving 4 characters per image as a way > of reducing bandwidth? Is there any other purpose? &g

RE: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-12 Thread Michael Kear
What’s the point of doing this?  Saving 4 characters per image as a way of reducing bandwidth?  Is there any other purpose?   Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[WSG] Floats changing when mouseover How to fix?

2004-06-10 Thread Michael Kear
I know I've seen the answer to this somewhere but I'm blowed if I can find where now.. On my page at http://bluegrass.org.au/Magazine/newreleases/index.cfm. Using IE6, when you put the mouse over the link "more ." the float containing the image reduces in size to match the 'more' link. Then

RE: [WSG] How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Kear
So James I have to go off and sign on for yet ANOTHER forum (I already have more than 800 emails a day to wade through, and 8 forums to check each day) just to ask if my DHTML menus are going to break here??? Surely there's someone here who knows the answer. How hard is it to just answer the que

RE: [WSG] How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Kear
Not many of these restrictions affect me, because I do most of my dynamic things on the server side with ColdFusion. But I read this with some alarm - does it mean that the DHTML menus I spent so much time getting to work will cease dropping down? [quote] Q: What does Internet Explorer consider

RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?

2004-06-06 Thread Michael Kear
G'day Kym, Anything to help a fellow traveller. Now if only I could find some contract work to employ my skills gainfully. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ky

RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?

2004-06-05 Thread Michael Kear
Title: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend? For those that use notepad and type everything in by hand,  there’s a far better answer for you – Ultraedit (ultraedit.com).  It is a simple text editor, but it has syntax highlighting,  can handle files as big as your whole hard drive,  ca

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
You're right, the sarcasm was lost on me. My bad. Sorry. Cheers Mike Kear -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Rodgers Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web stand

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
Jesse you are obviously not a business owner or a general manager. And if you are, you're not thinking like a business owner. If you can produce work far faster now than you could before, you can charge less. But that's only one of your options. You charge less if you need a competitive advanta

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
I've since taken a quick look at macaws.org and at a cursory speed-scan there doesn't seem to be anything in that article called "What Every Web Site Owner Should Know About Standards: A Web Standards Primer" at http://www.maccaws.org/kit/primer/ that has anything about the business reasons for a w

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
I don't know I've never read it. You go to Maccaws.org and you have to go off to another link to read anything useful. Like the old days of the portals. No one had any content, only links to more sites that are themselves just pages of more links. I can't be bothered going from link to link

[WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
Here's an interesting article on the implications for a web development shop on using web standards for development rather than the antique table-based methods we all used to use. This author compares the time taken to develop a site then and now, after changing to using standards. If this does

RE: Re[2]: [WSG] Budget Design

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Kear
Well appropriate or not for this list, it's been of immense interest for me. When you're a one-man business, the only way you ever find out your price is wrong is if you price too high and start losing business. I've got every bid I've gone for lately and have been puzzling over whether that's

[WSG] OT: need help from a mac user please

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Kear
This is off topic so please respond off-list, but I need some help from Mac users – I have a client who sees an error that I can’t produce.   When I go to http://nqpropertyreview.com and click enter, I am presented with a login screen, which is what’s required.  So are all of the 50 peop

RE: [WSG] legal requirements for accessability

2004-05-26 Thread Michael Kear
There's a saying in the sales business (/me thinking back all those years to when I was a sales trainer):Sell them what they want, and all the rest comes along for free. If the customer loves the car's hot stereo, sell them the hot stereo and the rest of the car comes along for free. IF the

RE: [WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Kear
Title: Message I found it!!!   Thanks for your suggestion David, but that wasn’t it.  However it did prompt me to go looking at the site where I got the original inspiration from (translation – I went back ot the site I stole it from in the first place before I tinkered with it beyond recog

[WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Kear
I’m stumped at what I’ve done wrong here.  I’ve copied (or at least I THOUGHT I copied!) a structure from another site that worked, but it’s playing out wrong for IE6.  can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong here please?   The site’s at http://paraklesis.com.au  and the style sheet is at

RE: [WSG] WSG Redesign Closed

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Kear
Well I for one thought it was a worthwhile project, and a good thing to try. I didn't submit a design because I don't put myself in the same class as many of the others on this list. I wouldn't want to have my design work judged alongside professional designers. Now if you're talking about code

RE: [WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
e why? Michael Kear skrev: > Thanks anyway. I guess no one has any ideas how I can make the lines > go underneath the floated box on my page in IE. Try position:relative; on the floated box(#heading) / m a r t i n * The discussion li

RE: [WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks anyway. I guess no one has any ideas how I can make the lines go underneath the floated box on my page in IE. I don't suppose it's impossible? Surely not. I can't use percentages in the float because it has to be fixed 130px width, because of the graphics creating the round corners. I g

RE: [WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
I should have been a little more specific. Sorry . It looks fine in Firefox to me too. However the client looks at his site in IE6, and that's where the problem manifests itself. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message

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